| Author | Rothwell, Clayton D. |
| Title | Multi-Sensory Integration in Motion Perception: Do Moving Sounds Facilitate/Interfere with Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements? |
| URL | http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1413319214  |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Degree | MS |
| Discipline/Department | Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology MS |
| Degree Level | masters |
| University/Publisher | Wright State University |
| Abstract | Previous experiments have attempted to measure smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) to acoustic targets with limited success. Some studies found no evidence for SPEM (Gauthier and Hofferer, 1967; Schaefer et al., 1981; Boucher et al., 2004; Berryhill et al., 2006) and other studies found only a sub-set of subjects could produce SPEM, which was poor in quality (Krukowski et al., 2001; Hashiba et al., 1996; Cloninger et al., 2013, 2014). These findings are despite evidence of auditory motion perception and an auditory motion aftereffect in the psychoacoustic literature (Carlile and Best, 2002; Dong et al., 2000). This thesis explored a multi-modal question, whether sounds can facilitate or interfere with pursuit of a visual target by moving congruent with or incongruent with linear visual motion, and did so using high-fidelity eye tracking that allowed for examination of the main pursuit characteristics: latency, open-loop acceleration, open-loop peak acceleration, steady-state gain (i.e., eye velocity/ target velocity), and number of “catch-up” saccades. Results showed evidence of facilitation in some characteristics (open-loop peak acceleration) but no evidence of interference, possibly due to the strength of the visual stimulus. |
| Subjects/Keywords | Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; perception; psychophysics; vision; hearing; psychoacoustics; motion; eye tracking; smooth pursuit eye movements; multi-sensory; multi-modal; integration; interaction; ventriloquism effect; perceptual alignment; |
| Contributors | Watamaniuk, Scott (Advisor) |
| Language | en |
| Rights | unrestricted ; This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
| Country of Publication | us |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Record ID | oai:etd.ohiolink.edu:wright1413319214 |
| Repository | ohiolink |
| Date Indexed | 2021-01-29 |
| Grantor | Wright State University |
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